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Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:17:16 +0000 (21:17 +0000)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:17:16 +0000 (21:17 +0000)
commitbcd5cbe01ef4306a82f85d0500f9a9f04113f804
treea9753988bcb56f924a12dac12dc09ad5e54b3119
parent5bad41eefc9f80298bb1abe00a5475be8b015c57
Issue #4751: hashlib now releases the GIL when hashing large buffers
(with a hardwired threshold of 2048 bytes), allowing better parallelization
on multi-CPU systems. Contributed by Lukas Lueg (ebfe) and Victor Stinner.
Doc/library/hashlib.rst
Lib/test/test_hashlib.py
Misc/NEWS
Modules/_hashopenssl.c